New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-16
FIVE O'CLOCK TEA IN LONDON

London Correspondence san Francisco Argonaut
The talk which on at the AVERAGE O'Clock yea -
usually OF neither brilliant nor strikingy intellectual
character Young English ladies and gentlemen AS they
in good society nova laws, don't come out sLronS a.
hunting shooting. cricket tennis horses ana uogs n,
utterly with Shakespeare except so far as
he is to he the au hor OF one OF Two OF inc pa
which Henry Irving and Ellen Terry have been playing
at tho Lyceum Dickens they are generally very nay
about aid never quote Ihac.sray .mey S oaS .
% wh, or being able to tell you Nne-tcnths OF them
would perhaps have heard OF him az al nau nov
Lord Beaconseld taken him for one OF ms @
In Endymio-" That called attention To hn ana mauc
people are who he wss AS or tire is sosp nnd
AetractioH favored with servants. whether III clup,
or han tS".s Of the Young nns
but mentally they don't soar whit higher ireineinper
with title to her name and wthal the daughter OF an
earl. about Shakespeare | got ionS series OF ons,
yess ana really az res'ii .i,b :. non't Won
think so + and waited Tor reply. o,,.. -,
really DENT know any!RW1s npo%' forbade mSesif
and my sisters to read him when was girl lie ddh
think him fit for girls TO read" ,.,
Poor Snake speare don't suppose any one ever heard
OF her father. the earl , . .
But why didn't you read him after you became "o-
man and married T.
she shook her head.
'.Oh dear no. | shouldn't think Of going against my
ather's vice even now"
And now just mere bit Of o'cock-,ca "conversa:
ton II suppose must call It so-as falrish sample Vi
lawfully jolly place. Homburg"
Ia-as. lummY's there, isn't net
"But say. didn't you saw You were going 10 shoot III
NO COIN with Bartie Paget FOR a cruise in his yacht
"IIOw awfuy Jolly. Wherei' r.
"Dno somewhere on the coast OF "erinany' "ci
many's got coast hasn't III
"Going 10 hunt this season. OF coirseF
"Oh, dear. no. I have sold the darling Polo"
what. sold Poo Never"
"Iiaye really Tommy Beauclerc gave me seventy
guincas her Fact IS she's been been fired twice. don
you know. and that. etc. etc. etc. "a,
"sne awfnlly Jolly mare. so MT. l.. .o,,.
'Rcsdes want new habit ana pa9a says ne can
quarters allowance left Lost every ha penny at sau-
down" H.. a.. u.,,os
OF tennis; abolish faults ana Dackhaniers
Rubbish! Better abolish the game aoSether y,,,ers
so say l. And-Oh look here seen Barley 'llllers
lstelvi Noi thought not" quzzical expression Win
eyc-glass up.
lies hooked IT, Jews got too hot for him"
always thought he'd come to sn sr nen a'er fartn
ing \ clergy mans daughter with couplo vi uo%oH
brothers. and most of ein IN debt ,,o y, ,be R,ues
the other day. and he was praisng the gals beauty
Hawnaw said she was an awtuly goo" s"'' 'o'
"whatl Good without a iarhng' Much use in that
should say. Percy always was an ass ,,, r.,
that the gal the Prince admired at 1ood"oou' ~
Is No. thanks no sugar -, , ,.o,,
"Cr@ami Calves brains" From the ditto.l
"No cream anu sugar. Why. that's the way tncy
drink tea out in Java or Cyprus where the tea comes
from don't you know so Charley vereker Oh the bay s.
h hat remind. me- I'm so awfully disgusted with my
maid Townlev. Just fancy. She won't drlnK ahytnlns
but Jaya-no. Japan tea think It's Japan. Anu s''
her beer money, too ..oo,
shameful! / should give her warning NJ once. -
DID YOU pronounced y,cl hear Bsoby Iravers Is ul
a tree Had 10 leave tho Grenaiiers ruined az non,e
Carlo Wasn't thing for hun 10 do but 20 OUT " Ne"
York at once" ,,. -,
What for ! A cattle rancho at Tchickah go =. -
"No. Yankee heress saw him the day nc eiI' am 1i
boy Its only Honorable. but irs goOd or nan iniAon
dollars at the very least sharp chap bonoy' ,,,h,.o
Oh Major Brabazon I've got the sweetest horRshlro
terrier coming to me from my Uncle George. such
darling" ..,,.,
- RealIyf Thought you only cared tor tnrnspits :,
You mean daehhunds. dessay. on, dear no. l muon
prefer cocs.'
NV sister Louisa has a Danish boarhound that sleeps
on TIE foot OF bed Imagine that lie stands four reet
high and weighs 40 pounds"
The dear!"
Fine beast" 5000.
Going to Lady Jampots TO night
"No we no not asked"
"Oh